Black Snow Covers Kihei Village, Maui Hawaii

Sugar Cane Burning results in a toxic cloud of black ashe which this morning, has covered Kihei Village on Maui with about an inch of soot! This video was made this 7am morning. Only a car or two has moved, leaving the parking lots undisturbed from the largest black snow to ever fall on Maui!

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News & Politics

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• black
• snow
• maui
• exceptional
• rare
• toxic
• smoke
• raining
• hazard
• sugar cane
• harvest

[cbattise]

Cane burning sucks!!!! But it is such a hot issue because it is like local verses haole. Locals say this is what we did before you got here and the haole say I don't care I am here now do what I like! The truth is there is nothing Hawaiian about burning cane. The haole brought the cane industry here and now the haole complain. Same ole shit different generation!!

[peterrosen]

Yup! That's the problem with our world, the old systems, just keep in power by keeping folks in fear! What is needed is a complete overhaul of all social systems and review of America's present party system, that is no party at all! Politics is a matter of personal pereference and creativity. We are (cyberspace cadets) beginning to evolve our world, hopefully we will reach those not lucky to be online with needed changes to planetary general systems design.

[GamesForLife222]

how is that black snow?????????? thats just soot from the burning sugar cane.i see that mostely every day on maui when im walking home from school

[peterrosen]

It is not snow, as I say upfront in the video, LIKE BLACK SNOW I explain, going into detail. You have missed that that title is an alligorical point/reference.

[peterrosen]

Hey thanks for the comment. It really was a wild sight for someone who grew up on the East Coast. I am used to seeing a blanket of snow, but this....

[ksff286]

I'm not even going to waste my time with much on this one..

[wrecK808]

haha i lived in kihei villages

[Mauikine3k]

Aloha Euhnomon. Response 1 of 2. Please re-read my posts. I did not say that burning occurs only ever 1 ½ or 2 years...I noted fields.

As you know, there are over 30k++ sugar acres on Maui. Fields (100+acres) are planted in a staggered time therefore harvesting/burning in a staggered time period & as you posted, mostly everyday. I posted...not everyday. Therefore, we actually didn't disagree. However, you took your comments further...see 2 of 2.

[euhnomon]

Black-snowing again in "paradise".

It's about 08:00 a.m. June 26th, 2008.

I videoed it, so maybe, if I am not lazy, I will post it here later.

Mauikine3k: are you still claiming that it only happens once in a year and a half or even once in 2 years.

[euhnomon]

It's June 7th, 2008. It's black-snowing in 'paradise' again (it started before 7:30 a.m and it's around 9:00 am now. Any comments Mauikine3k?

[euhnomon]

By the way, where did you get the idea that "sugar cane absorbs carbon monoxide during that time" (for anyone having even rudimentary knowledge of physics, chemistry and biology, it's a laughable statement) . It's scary how ignorant one needs to be to say something like that.

+ YES I do live on Maui. If you realy stand by what you say, let's make a deal. I will pay you $10 for each weak in which there is no sugar cane burning and you pay me $10 for each week there is.

[euhnomon]

it's june 6th, 2008, 7:46am it's "black-snowing" right now, just as it it did yesterday and a couple of days ago. Maybe, I should post on YouTube a video of 'black snow' on Maui everytime it happens?

[Mauikine3k]

Cane does NOT burn daily...fields that are scheduled to burn are burned 18 months after the field is planted during "harvest season."... which ranges from late spring through late summer... not year round...do you even live in Hawaii Nei?